Plant and Animal Adaptations in the Tropical Rainforest

Plant and Animal Adaptations

Animals that live in the tropical rainforest are very well suited to life in the trees. many of the organisms have adaptations they use to eat a food source that not many other organisms eat, to cut down on competition. Here are some examples of animals and plants in the tropical rainforests and their adaptations.
Animal Adaptations
1. Toucans have developed large beaks to crack open the hard shells of different nuts. This is a useful adaptation because the toucans can eat the nuts that no other animals are able to eat.
2. Red Eyed Tree Frogs have soft skin to absorb water through it, causing it not to have to drink a lot of water.
3. Golden Lion Tamarins have narrowly shaped hands with long fingers, and clawlike nails. They use these to probe the bark on trees for insects.
Plant Adaptations
1. The Pincher Plant can emit a sweet smell that attracts different insects that will crawl into their inside to try and find the smell, and eventually the insects will actually be digested.
2. Lianas are a vine in the tropical rainforest, they root themselves in the ground and climb higher on the surrounding trees to reach available sunlight.
3. The Strangler Fig starts out as a epiphyte high in the trees, carried there by birds and monkeys who eat the fig fruit. The seedling sends down its roots to the ground, where it begins to surround the host tree. It quickly grows and suffocates the host, leaving an enormous upright strangler with a hollow core.